Well, if you know this guy, you will probably appreciate his unbiased, comparative analysis of the iPhone versus his Nokia E70.

He has also written something about macs vs. PCs:

"After the recent Apple conference, Mac fans were elated. One person was quoted as saying "I've had a Macintosh now for a total of 35 days, and I'm really excited to be part of the Mac community." Part of the Mac community? It's a computer, not a social movement, asshole!"

Watch out for his site, though - once you pop, you can't stop…

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Suppose someone sent you one of those "funny" video clips that circulate on the Internet - for instance the one with the DUI guy who is being finger printed at the police station. Let us further assume you would like to have this video on to your mobile phone so you can show it off to your friends…or something.

How will you do that?

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"Sensitivity to the competing virtues of parsimony and comprehensiveness is the hallmark of a good terrorist theorist."

Named after Reverend William A. Spooner

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SanDisk - world leader among manufacturers of flash memory - has just launched a microSD (Secure Digital) card capable of storing 6 GB of data. I vividly recall when I got a new personal computer that featured a 20 MB hard drive. I was happy like a pig in dirt so to me, 6 GB is a lot of data.

The 6 GB card is for instance in stock at mymemory.co.uk (£36.99) and just about to be stocked at ProShop.dk (DKK 390,-).

In a situation like this, the question is always if this new card is compatible with your phone? Well, if your are the owner of a Nokia N95 (or N76) the answer is yes - not only is the 6 GB card included on SanDisk's list of N95 compatible memory cards, some very nice people have taken it upon themselves to get hold of a card to test it with a N95. The result can be seen in the image to the right…

I am glad I did not buy one of the 4 GB cards!

There is also an 8 GB microSD card in the pipeline and it looks as if the 8 GB will also work with the N95. That is nice for those of us that own an "old" N95 - even if we do not get the cool display of the 8 GB version of the N95, or the cool battery, or the cool amount of RAM, we are able to get the same amount of memory….

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For some time I have been using the GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program - the open source software equivalent of Adobe PhotoShop. I am not doing very advanced stuff - mostly resizing and cropping pictures, but I wanted something a little more sophisticated than Microsoft Paint.

I have had a little accident with the GIMP GUI, though. At some point I must have accidentally undocked and closed the tool property window from the main GIMP window. It took me a while to figure out how to reopen that window (Shift + Ctrl + T), but there was no way I could make it re-dock within the main window. I figured this could be one of those *minor* things that can take ages to sort out, without being very important. So, I just left the tool property window on its own, but managed to get annoyed about the many windows that would open when I started the GIMP (4: main window, layers window, tool property window plus Tip of the Day).

Anyways, today I decided I had enough and I searched for tips on docking GIMP windows. I quickly found this forum post, which precisely explains how to dock GIMP windows, in easily digestible steps, with images…w00t!¹ The GIMP documentation explains ¹ The GIMP documentation explains how to dock and undock windows - but with fewer images and less explanation.

See also carol.gimp.org.

1. As per Sept. 17, 2007 the forums at Nintendo.com have been closed [back]

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The launch of the Apple iPhone has prompted the creation of numerous cool websites. Some of these websites only work with the iPhone's Safari Browser, but a great many work with any browser - including the one on your phone….

A couple of weeks ago, I commented on these iPhone-specific websites, labeling them as a bad idea. I still think they are, but one can hope that by promoting the creation of mobile-friendly websites, the iPhone adds to the momentum of the »mobile internet«.

So if you have a mobile with 3G - and/or WLAN - plus a decent browser, you are all set to go! And you really should go because there is so much to see and try… (as I hope you will agree after reading this post).

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